Re: create a symlink

2019-04-03 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Rene, Rene writes: > On the other hand, in linux there is `--system` argument, how does this > argument work?, Is there a script that uses it?. To test `--system`, I > removed it from my linux system and when loging in with my user it does not > detect any command. > > BOOT_IMAGE=/gnu/store/f

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-03 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello Florian, > Not using KMScon would prevent support for the Chinese and Japanese > language during install, would it not? Yes and for other languages too. > Currently there is no support because > > · the Chinese and Japanese locales are not added to the installer, it > only includes gli

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-03 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 09:19:01AM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > Hello Florian, > > > Not using KMScon would prevent support for the Chinese and Japanese > > language during install, would it not? > > Yes and for other languages too. > Other languages could work with a console font approp

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-03 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey Danny, I don't get very well the Linux graphics stack but my understanding is that passing "nomodeset" to Linux will disable KMS and thus kmscon won't work. Is that correct ? I'm going to try it on my hardware today to see how it goes anyway. Thank you, Mathieu

Re: Building custom kernel modules (e.g. VHBA for CDEmu)

2019-04-03 Thread Chris Marusich
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > The only thing we need, beside a C compiler, is this KDIR, which on Guix > _could_ be found at > > /gnu/store/…-linux-libre-5.0.1/lib/modules/5.0.1/build > > Sadly, for us it's a dangling link to > /tmp/guix-build-linux-libre-5.0.1.drv-0/linux-5.0.1. > > I presume tha

Re: Software Heritage & Guix

2019-04-03 Thread Chris Marusich
Ludovic Courtès writes: > I’ve written a post on the Software Heritage support in Guix: > > > https://gnu.org/s/guix/blog/2019/connecting-reproducible-deployment-to-a-long-term-source-code-archive/ > > Happy reading! :-) Really cool! Thank you for sharing. -- Chris signature.asc Descrip

Re: Audio/sound (ALSA) in guix environment --container

2019-04-03 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Nice, just tried it and it's working. It's also able to start programs I would not start before, so great success! I'm still not able to play any sound though. Anyone? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: custom kernel config

2019-04-03 Thread Chris Marusich
Efraim Flashner writes: > I'm playing around with the idea of creating a custom kernel Cool! I'm curious to know how you're passing the custom config in. Are you using the #:extra-options keyword argument of the make-linux-libre procedure? Are you passing in a procedure to generate the entire

Re: Software Heritage & Guix

2019-04-03 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello Guix! mikadoZero writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> ... >> Long-term archival is something that cannot be left to peer-to-peer >> networks: I disagree here: P2P/decentralized archival is a _resilient_ archival method and is _not_ in contrast with long-term: a group of users (includin

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-03 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 06:09:40PM -0500, sirgazil wrote: > El 2/04/19 a las 5:10 p. m., Per Bothner escribió: > >On 4/2/19 1:12 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > >>As far as I know GNOME’s Yelp is a frontend to different kinds of > >>documentation and it does support Info files. > > > >That reads *info*

Re: Quicklisp importer bug in tarball->extract->parse

2019-04-03 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi, thanks for your work! I'll look into it Very Soon™. Cheers! -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-03 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > >> Here's a patch that fallback to mingetty if kmscon is not supported. I >> don't have a machine with AMD GPU for testing so if Florian or Pierre >> could test the patch that would be very helpful :) > > That was fast, thanks! > > We’ll wait

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-03 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 06:17:25AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 01:42:38PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > The more current commit 0e558640361b6ab4aac0f424cb587b21a642bab8 > > without the patch runs into a Guile prompt because of an error in > > re

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-03 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
On Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:19:01 +0200 Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > Hello Florian, > > > Not using KMScon would prevent support for the Chinese and Japanese > > language during install, would it not? > > Yes and for other languages too. Yeah, but doesn't kmscon support vesa? I mean I know the name

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-03 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Mathieu, > I don't get very well the Linux graphics stack but my understanding is > that passing "nomodeset" to Linux will disable KMS and thus kmscon won't > work. Is that correct ? I don't know. It might be the case but I doubt it. Why would kmscon remove a perfectly fine fallback that's p

Re: Video narration

2019-04-03 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi Laura, The recording session went very well yesterday. We were able to make all the recordings in a studio without having to worry about background noise. I had help from a sound engineer who is familiar with the microphone set-up and the recording process. > Great! :) Let me know when you

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-03 Thread sirgazil
El 3/04/19 a las 3:43 a. m., Gavin Smith escribió: On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 06:09:40PM -0500, sirgazil wrote: El 2/04/19 a las 5:10 p. m., Per Bothner escribió: On 4/2/19 1:12 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: As far as I know GNOME’s Yelp is a frontend to different kinds of documentation and it does s

Re: Video narration

2019-04-03 Thread sirgazil
El 3/04/19 a las 9:05 a. m., Paul Garlick escribió: Hi Laura, The recording session went very well yesterday. We were able to make all the recordings in a studio without having to worry about background noise. I had help from a sound engineer who is familiar with the microphone set-up and the

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-03 Thread Per Bothner
On 4/3/19 7:23 AM, sirgazil wrote: Sorry, I don't understand. Documents in Yelp seem to adapt to some extent to the screen width (text reflows, for example). Videos an images don't adapt well to the screen width in the version I'm using, and info documents seem to have a fixed width. Yes, t

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-03 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Per Bothner writes: > On 4/2/19 1:12 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> As far as I know GNOME’s Yelp is a frontend to different kinds of >> documentation and it does support Info files. > > That reads *info* files. We're talking about reading *html* files. > See Gavin's original message for why we

Re: Video narration

2019-04-03 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Paul, Paul Garlick ezt írta (időpont: 2019. ápr. 3., Sze 16:05): > Hi Laura, > > The recording session went very well yesterday. We were able to make > all the recordings in a studio without having to worry about background > noise. > That's wonderful. Thanks so much. I will listen to th

Re: Video narration

2019-04-03 Thread sirgazil
El 3/04/19 a las 9:05 a. m., Paul Garlick escribió: Hi Laura, The recording session went very well yesterday. We were able to make all the recordings in a studio without having to worry about background noise. I had help from a sound engineer who is familiar with the microphone set-up and the

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-03 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
> I suggest that we use fbdev (maybe at runtime, but maybe just disable > everything > else :P). Selecting it at runtime should work well. I've read kmscon source now and they wait for udev events in order to choose backends. Once an udev event arrives, they check the result of udev_device_ge

Re: custom kernel config

2019-04-03 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 01:08:14AM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > Efraim Flashner writes: > > > I'm playing around with the idea of creating a custom kernel > > Cool! I'm curious to know how you're passing the custom config in. Are > you using the #:extra-options keyword argument of the make-l

Re: Video narration

2019-04-03 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi! > I had help from a sound engineer who is familiar with the microphone > set-up and the recording process. > GREAT! > > > For the cli sessions we used the timings in your recordings as a guide > to synchronize my voice with the screen. I notice that there are > 'sleep' commands in the session

Re: custom kernel config

2019-04-03 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 09:49:59PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Thank you Efraim, this is awesome! > > Efraim Flashner writes: > > > For the first one I used the #:extra-options route and compiled a list. > > The second one I tried I created a custom kernel and left #:defconfig as > > #f and

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > On Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:19:01 +0200 > Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > >> Hello Florian, >> >> > Not using KMScon would prevent support for the Chinese and Japanese >> > language during install, would it not? >> >> Yes and for other languages too. > > Yeah, but doesn't

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Danny Milosavljevic skribis: >> I suggest that we use fbdev (maybe at runtime, but maybe just disable >> everything >> else :P). > > Selecting it at runtime should work well. > > I've read kmscon source now and they wait for udev events in order to choose > backends. > > Once an udev event arri

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-03 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
> To summarize, we’re just missing ‘--with-video=fbdev,drm2d’ and then > we’re done, right? Reading the kmscon source code (configure.ac), it seems that the default is "fbdev,drm2d,drm3d". I suspect that the drm hangs the kernel in Florian's case. It indeed might make sense to try whether "--wit

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Gavin Smith skribis: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 11:37:51AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> (For some reason ‘i’ does open the index search box for me, but then >> hitting enter doesn’t produce any effect. The other navigation commands >> work fine, though.) > > It works on Firefox 53, at least.

Re: Software Heritage & Guix

2019-04-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Giovanni Biscuolo skribis: > mikadoZero writes: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> ... >>> Long-term archival is something that cannot be left to peer-to-peer >>> networks: > > I disagree here: P2P/decentralized archival is a _resilient_ archival > method and is _not_ in contrast with lon

Re: librsvg & Rust

2019-04-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Marius Bakke skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] > I don't have a strong opinion, so I restored the previous librsvg > variant for now and kept the Rust one as 'librsvg-next' with commit > f67417a1b4d3fbd3a2e1593d32422e0d901ba367. Great. > Let's "freeze" and try to merge this branc

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Per, Per Bothner skribis: > On 4/2/19 2:37 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Yet I’m not completely sold to the everything in the browser approach, >> and everything in JavaScript. In an ideal world (for me), we’d rather >> provide a local documentation viewer > > I don't think we're aiming for

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-03 Thread Per Bothner
On 4/3/19 2:11 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: What I do for the Kawa manual is generate an 'epub' archive, which is basically a zip archive, with compression. It is fairly simple for a web server to extract a zip member and send it to a browser directly as a gzip-compressed file, without actually d

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-03 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:02:44PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > > To summarize, we’re just missing ‘--with-video=fbdev,drm2d’ and then > > we’re done, right? > > Reading the kmscon source code (configure.ac), it seems that the default > is "fbdev,drm2d,drm3d". > > I suspect that the drm ha